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Course Introduction
Child Development explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social growth of children from conception through adolescence. The course examines major theoretical perspectives, research methods, and the influences of family, culture, and society on developmental processes. Students will study milestones in language acquisition, moral understanding, and identity formation, as well as challenges and variations in development. Through lectures, readings, and hands-on activities, learners gain insights into how children learn, adapt, and thrive in diverse environments.
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Art and Creative Development for Young Children 8th Edition by J. Englebright Fox
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Chapter 1: Understanding Creativity
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Q1) Teachers can best help children celebrate creativity by all of the following except:
A) consolidating all creative thinking curriculum into a daily lesson.
B) helping children identify creative heroes.
C) discussing the importance of creative products and inventions.
D) sharing their own creativity with children.
Answer: A
Q2) For young children, creativity is a special and different way of viewing the world in which there are no right or wrong answers, only possibilities. In this view, creativity is seen as a(n):
A) aptitude.
B) skill.
C) knowledge base.
D) attitude.
Answer: D
Q3) List the types of higher-level thinking involved in creativity.
Answer: observation; problem solving; discovery; analysis; hypothesizing; predicting; testing; communicating
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Chapter 2: Creative Thinking
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Q1) In creative thinking, elaboration refers to:
A) coming up with many possibilities.
B) the uniqueness of an idea.
C) making an idea rich or complex.
D) coming up with very different responses.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is an example of an open-ended question?
A) How many wheels are on your car?
B) What color is the sky?
C) What do you think will happen next?
D) What was the name of the boy in the story?
Answer: C
Q3) The corpus callosum is:
A) a thin branch of nerves that serves as a communication system between the two hemispheres of the brain.
B) the side of the brain responsible for rational and logical thinking.
C) the side of the brain responsible for nonrational, intuitive thinking and spatial relations.
D) a thick covering that protects the brain from injuries and infection.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Creative Experiences
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Q1) The visual arts include all of the following except:
A) print and craft media.
B) artistic analysis and interpretation.
C) pantomime.
D) construction.
Answer: C
Q2) Children who engage in dramatic play have attained representational ability. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Describe the different positions children might assume for mark making and the pros and cons of each.
Answer: The response should include sprawling on the floor, kneeling, sitting or standing at a table, or standing at an easel. Pros and cons should identify possibilities for gross and fine motor development and opportunities for social interaction.
Q4) Play with art media and materials is considered constructive play.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Art and the Developing Child
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Q1) Which of the following is not important to creativity?
A) discovery
B) exploration
C) visual-spatial awareness
D) experimentation
Q2) Effective art therapy for young children requires:
A) extensive knowledge of the child's social and emotional relationships.
B) an extensively trained art therapist.
C) samples of the child's artwork over a long period of time.
D) both b and c
Q3) For young children, drawing and writing with skinny tools is:
A) more comfortable than using fat pencils and crayons.
B) developmentally appropriate because of the direction of proximodistal development.
C) fatiguing and likely to limit their engagement in these activities.
D) really the same as drawing and writing with fat tools.
Q4) Preschoolers in Piaget's pre-operational stage can use symbols to represent their world.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Childrens Artistic Development
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Q1) List four different positions in which children can draw or paint.
Q2) The stages of artistic development suggested by Schirrmacher include:
A) scribbling, preschematic, schematic, dawning realism, and realistic drawing.
B) scribbling, placement, shape, design, and pictorial.
C) sensory motor, preoperational, preconceptual, intuitive, and conceptual.
D) manipulating the media; making shapes, outlines, designs, and symbols; pictorial art that is becoming recognizable; and realistic.
Q3) Piaget's theory of art development is best described as a:
A) developmental theory.
B) cognitive theory.
C) comprehensive theory.
D) cognitive developmental theory.
Q4) Gardner (1980) describes artistic development as a(n):
A) S-shaped curve.
B) V-shaped curve.
C) U-shaped curve.
D) M-shaped curve.
Q5) Explain how you will use theories of artistic development to plan art activities in your curriculum.
Q6) Explain the significance of the "tadpole man" in children's drawings.
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Chapter 6: The Elements of Art
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Q1) Child and adult artists are equally concerned with design and composition in their artwork.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Adding white to a color will produce:
A) shade.
B) tint.
C) hue.
D) intensity.
Q3) tint
A)the purity of light reflected from a surface
B)the lightened value of any color made by adding white
C)the color name
D)the relative lightness or darkness of a hue
E)the darkened value of any color made by adding black
Q4) Shape refers to:
A) the outside form of an object.
B) the edge of an enclosed space.
C) a contrasting color or texture defined by a line or outline.
D) all of the above
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Chapter 7: Aesthetics
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Q1) Aesthetic experiences provide children with rich sensory data. Sensory data foster:
A) aesthetic development.
B) thinking and concept formation.
C) the acquisition of new and richer vocabulary.
D) social-emotional development.
Q2) Which of the following is not a teacher role in facilitating young children's aesthetic development?
A) being an artist
B) being an aesthetic model
C) creating an aesthetically pleasing classroom
D) facilitating art visitors and field trips
Q3) When speaking to young children, it is most appropriate for the teacher to refer to himself or herself:
A) as "I" or "me."
B) by the name the children use, such as "Miss Tanya" or "Mr. Smith."
C) as "Teacher."
D) all of the above
Q4) List five reasons aesthetics and aesthetic education are important in early childhood.
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Chapter 8: Sensory Experiences
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Q1) Which of the following senses best matches the descriptive term temperature?
A) baric
B) tactile
C) thermic
D) sterognostic
Q2) In the concept development equation, examples of concepts include:
A) color, tone, scent, and flavor.
B) visual, auditory, tactile, and gustatory.
C) compare, contrast, classify, and describe.
D) enjoy, marvel, joy, and happy.
Q3) Tactile activities involve:
A) tasting to identify, recognize, and name a substance.
B) moving with or on an object in order to identify, recognize, and/or name it.
C) touching to identify, recognize, and name a substance.
D) categorizing objects or substances.
Q4) Explain what would happen at a taste party.
Q5) Most people rely heavily on their olfactory sense.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the value of cooking activities in the early childhood classroom.
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Chapter 9: The Complete Early Childhood Art Program
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Q1) Which of the following styles of art reflected the violent, highly emotional environment of World War I?
A) Cubism
B) Expressionism
C) Pop art
D) Realism
Q2) Field trips contribute to the early childhood art program by extending children's personal ranges of experience to a wider community.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Impressionist art deals with perception rather than reality.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Pointillism requires the artist to mix colors before applying small dots of paint to the canvas.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe each of the four primary components of a complete early childhood art program and explain why each is important for young children.
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Chapter 10: Child-Centered Art Versus Teacher-Directed Projects
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Q1) Active participation in the learning process is needed for children to:
A) improve motor development.
B) form connections between what they already know and what they are learning.
C) understand abstract concepts.
D) develop advanced art skills.
Q2) Arrange the three approaches to teaching art along a continuum of least to most teacher input.
Q3) Children's access to the materials in the art center should be limited for reasons of safety.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is a developmentally appropriate art activity for toddlers?
A) finger painting
B) modeling with play dough
C) exploring with crayons and paper
D) coloring in a coloring book
Q5) Dyeing Easter eggs.
A)art project (a)
B) craft project (c).
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Chapter 11: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Art
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Q1) A good topic to explore in emergent curriculum is one that:
A) interests adults and children.
B) is new to the children.
C) is a focus in the state standards.
D) has much related information available in the library.
Q2) Explain the difference between dispositions and feelings. Describe how you will address both in the curriculum activities you plan.
Q3) Which curriculum approach is used in the Reggio Emilia schools?
A) projects
B) thematic units
C) canned curriculum
D) accidental curriculum
Q4) Thematic curriculum helps children to:
A) develop basic skills.
B) explore a topic in depth.
C) make connections across the curriculum.
D) learn faster.
Q5) Identify the two major processes in implementing early childhood curriculum.
Q6) List the three components of early childhood curriculum development.
Q7) List the four types of learning identified by Kath (1987).
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Chapter 12: The Art Center 1
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Q1) In social studies curriculum, making a mural is a good activity to:
A) introduce a topic or theme of study.
B) prepare children for a field trip or guest speaker.
C) wrap up or synthesize a topic's study or investigation.
D) further develop an idea for investigation.
Q2) Tanesha discovering that mixing red and blue finger paint makes purple
A)speaking
B)writing
C)science
D)social studies
E)mathematics
Q3) Which of the following areas has not been a part of traditional early childhood curriculum?
A) literacy and the communication arts
B) listening
C) technology
D) expressive arts
Q4) Activities with tempera paint can help children learn about science concepts related to . (2 words)
Q5) List the major early childhood curricular areas.
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Chapter 13: The Art Center 2
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Q1) Which of the following is true about the early childhood art center?
A) Activities should focus children on exploration.
B) Activities should focus children on processing.
C) Activities should focus children on creating products.
D) Activities should balance process and product for children.
Q2) The early childhood art center is a place for making art rather than appreciating art.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The responsibilities of a classroom docent would include:
A) tidying up the art center every day.
B) giving tours of the art displays to classroom visitors.
C) refilling the paint jars in the art center.
D) choosing library books for the art center to match the curriculum theme.
Q4) The art center is best located near the:
A) book center.
B) science center.
C) manipulatives center.
D) dramatic play center.
Q5) List the rules suggested for the early childhood art center.
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Chapter 14: Art Experiences Through Technology
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Q1) Children's access to computers in the classroom should be closely supervised by adults.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following would be an appropriate use of technology for an 18-month-old child?
A) watching a Baby Einstein video
B) Skyping with a traveling parent
C) listening to an audiobook
D) playing Angry Birds
Q3) Computers provide opportunities for children to use their multiple intelligences.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Brain research tells us that technology experiences can help children learn about society and themselves.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List seven suggested rules for the computer center.
Q6) In computer art, the___________ qualities of the media are missing.
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Chapter 15: Roles, Responses, and Strategies to Support
Childrens Art
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Q1) The judgmental approach to children's artwork:
A) puts the teacher's seal of approval on the child's artwork.
B) puts children on the spot to explain or justify their artwork.
C) undermines the teacher's credibility.
D) reinforces stereotypes in children's art.
Q2) List six roles for teachers in the early childhood art program.
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the artistic elements?
A) color
B) line
C) content
D) texture
Q4) Art dialogue is a strategy for:
A) teaching children art vocabulary.
B) using the seven artistic elements to discuss children's artwork.
C) talking with children about masterpiece art.
D) discussing the directions for an art project.
Q5) Taking art dictation deepens the teacher's understanding of the child artist.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Art Assessment
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Q1) Observation is descriptive and based on fact; analysis and interpretation are based on:
A) teacher knowledge.
B) inference.
C) environment.
D) chronological age.
Q2) Checklists require teachers to make judgments about the behaviors they are seeing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If children approach you while you are observing them, you should:
A) stop your observation immediately.
B) ignore the children.
C) redirect them back to what they had been doing.
D) tell them what you are doing and ask for their cooperation.
Q4) David and Caroline aren't getting along well today.
A)Fact (f)
B)Inference (i)
Q5) Explain why it is important for children to learn to self-assess their artwork.
Q6) List four of the five reasons for studying an individual child.
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